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New Call Of Duty Rumor

So less than one week after launch of the latest Call of Duty, there has been rumor of new Call of Duty in development...... and scheduled for launch within next year! Now we are in the second last month of this year!!

Given Activision's track record, it wont leak info of a new COD if it cannot be launched within a year. This franchise has become so hot that it doesn't need more than a year to hype up for a new installment.

And you can imagine the damage it can do to the sale of Black Ops 2, so Activision naturally denied it:

I think this implicates that Activision realized COD has reached its limit of potential. They not gonna wait. Unless they can revolutionize it so it wont be just a hi-res version of Counter-Strike as all previous installments be.

Annualized franchises continue to saturate market and make announcements about being the biggest something-something entertainment something ever, as innovation and inventiveness leak out, bit by bit.

This is just a very classical McDonald's way of marketing. Yes, you know McDonald is selling junk food. They dont taste great. Yet, they are highly standardized. You know exactly the junk food you gonna buy is perfectly within expected (though often not satisfactorily) quality. With low price, this is a very strong competitive edge.

Run by a very aged engine, you won't run into any crazy bugs. Think of it, have you heard of any serious bugs out of any of Call of Duties?

But seriously, if they want my money, they better deliver us the free COD Elite first.

Problem is suddenly no one wants to make anything except CoD because that's the only thing that's selling millions of copies. The law of supply and demand punches the minority in the crotch.

Yea... and funny enough, every new shooter looks more or less like CoD. So maybe I was wrong when I said that people could actually pick another shooter than CoD. There's CoD... and 1,000,000 CoD clones out there. Sad...

No one is surprised by this. The only marginally interesting thing from the article is that the next CoD is looking to be released on the next-gen systems. That means it is very likely that the new Sony and Microsoft hardware will be out in not much more than years time (not surprising either, but as close as a confirmation as we are likely to get for a few months.)

I've been looking at NS2 with interest. But no one I know is going to buy it - is it really hard to work with a PUG?

NS2 looks awesome, but I'm not going to get it as it appears to be too complex for just a few casual gaming hours after work. The whole RTS element (Commander) is too hardcore for me. Maybe great for hardcore gamers though...

NS2 looks awesome, but I'm not going to get it as it appears to be too complex for just a few casual gaming hours after work. The whole RTS element (Commander) is too hardcore for me. Maybe great for hardcore gamers though...

I love the game and have never played as commander.

Originally Posted by Shooop

I've been looking at NS2 with interest. But no one I know is going to buy it - is it really hard to work with a PUG?

It's hit or miss, but it usually works. It is not rare to have some savvy vets on your team. It is a game that heavily relies on voice communication, so when teams are using mics the PUGs can seem much more organized than in a lot of games.

NS2 is the anti-COD in many ways. The developers have stated they will never release paid-for DLC that splinters the community. They support modding and modded servers. Also, ten years until they released the sequel.

So, what does that mean for ActiWarfare and its ilk? This aged engine probably has to go, but I would bet on one or two more releases using this engine and an up-resed PC-port for the new consoles next year. They'd be insane to drop support for a Fucking Massive install base on current-gen consoles. Especially because they've got to keep breaking those records.